Dr. Jenn Simmons and Dr. Bradley Campbell unpack why autoimmune disease is rising, why so many patients are dismissed for years, and why symptom suppression alone often makes things worse. This conversation focuses on root causes, especially gut dysfunction, stress, and immune triggers, and explains why individualized care matters more than one-size-fits-all treatment.Dr. Campbell shares how his work evolved from injury care into complex autoimmune cases, while Dr. Simmons brings the perspective of conventional medicine, cancer care, and the limits of training that does not teach health optimization.

Key topics

• In this episode, Dr. Simmons opens with a blunt critique of how poorly autoimmune disease is understood in conventional medicine, especially when labs are “normal” but patients are clearly unwell.
• Dr. Campbell explains how autoimmune cases found him through patients with chronic, rare, and complex conditions that mainstream care could not resolve.
• We discuss the gap between medical training and real-world health care, including the difference between knowing how to prescribe and knowing how to create health.
• Dr. Simmons and Dr. Campbell agree that the system rewards sickness management, not healing, and that insurance incentives often push short visits, prescriptions, and procedures over root-cause work.
• In this episode: low iron is treated as a major red flag for digestive dysfunction, malabsorption, celiac disease, low enzymes, or bile flow problems, not just a number to supplement away.
• We discuss why proton pump inhibitors can create long-term digestive problems by reducing stomach acid, impairing digestion, and contributing to dysbiosis and infection risk.
• Dr. Campbell outlines his autoimmune screening approach, including ANA, ENA panels, thyroid antibodies, hormone testing, food sensitivity workups, and broader root-cause diagnostics.
• The autoimmune triad comes up in detail: genetics, gut dysfunction, and a trigger such as physical trauma, infection, medication, food reaction, or emotional stress.
• We discuss parasites as a controversial but real variable in some autoimmune cases, especially in the context of protozoa, gut imbalance, and chronic thyroid issues.
• Dr. Simmons and Dr. Campbell both push back on rigid diets and medical absolutism, arguing for individualized decisions around grains, dairy, nightshades, and autoimmune protocols.
• The conversation closes with a strong emphasis on stress, nervous system overload, childhood trauma, and the need for quiet, reflection, and community without constant screen input.

Timestamps

00:00 - Why autoimmune disease is exploding and often missed for years
 03:15 - How Dr. Campbell’s path shifted from music and injuries to autoimmune care
 06:23 - Why medical training is a foundation, not a complete education in health
 08:49 - Doctors as well-intentioned players inside a broken system
 11:10 - Why screening versus symptom-based testing must be treated differently
 13:20 - Autoimmune disease is highly individualized, even when diagnoses look similar
 14:23 - Why celiac disease is often found only after a breast cancer diagnosis
 16:36 - Why 30 patients a day leaves no room for root-cause medicine
 19:34 - Insurance incentives reward sickness instead of health
 23:55 - Years of delayed diagnosis and the cost of being told labs are “normal”
 26:52 - Low iron as a clue to digestion, not just iron deficiency
 28:19 - Why stomach acid matters for digestion, immune protection, and bile signaling
 31:03 - How Heidelberg testing evaluates stomach acidity in real time
 33:39 - What Dr. Campbell looks for that many providers miss in autoimmune cases
 36:09 - The autoimmune triad: genetics, gut dysfunction, and a trigger
 37:34 - Structural, biochemical, and emotional triggers that can set off autoimmunity
 40:28 - Parasites, terrain, and why over-treatment is not always the answer
 43:44 - Vaccine-era inflammation, informed consent, and autoimmune flare concerns
 48:59 - A better model for autoimmune disease: the immune system is trying to do something
 51:02 - The autoimmune protocol diet and when a less restrictive approach is better
 53:31 - Nightshades, liver function, and why food rules should not be universal
 56:13 - Why grains and dairy are not automatically bad for everyone, but can be poor fits in active disease
 61:34 - Blood sugar, energy, mood, and why kids often need more real food
 63:41 - Why processed protein bars and powders are often worse than whole foods
 65:49 - Food transitions at home: why change is hard even when the benefits are obvious
 67:46 - Root-cause thinking applies to MS, breast cancer, dementia, osteoporosis, and diabetes
 70:03 - Dr. Campbell’s membership community, weekly teaching, and lab support
 71:30 - GLP-1 drugs: useful tools for some, but not a shortcut for lifestyle change
 74:42 - Stress, trauma, quiet time, and why emotional load drives chronic disease
 76:55 - Why unresolved trauma and a lack of safety can affect healing for years

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-call

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuide

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
Website:  https://www.perfeqtionimaging.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
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Between a Shot and a Hard Place: Vaccine Facts, Medical Freedom, and Trust in Medicine

Dr. Jenn Simmons speaks with pediatrician and integrative medicine practitioner Dr. Joel Warsh, known online as Dr. Gator, about vaccines, informed consent, and why trust in medicine has broken down. The conversation focuses on what parents are actually being told, what the research does and does not show, and how medical decisions get shaped by mandates, industry incentives, and fear.We discuss vaccine schedules, the difference between evidence and dogma, how chronic disease trends relate to broader lifestyle and systems issues, and why Dr. Warsh believes parents need more transparency and more room to choose.

Key topics

• Dr. Warsh explains how he moved from conventional pediatrics into integrative medicine after seeing the value of sleep, diet, exercise, and root-cause thinking in primary care.
• He describes why vaccines became a major focus in his practice: parents kept asking questions, and he realized medical training had not prepared him to answer them deeply.
• The hosts discuss how COVID-era mandates intensified distrust, especially in states like California, where school and work requirements effectively removed choice for many families.
• Dr. Warsh argues that medicine has become too force-driven and too dogmatic, and that doctors should educate rather than pressure patients.
• The conversation turns to the idea that modern medicine is heavily shaped by pharma funding, which affects training, journals, media, and what gets studied or published.
• They compare longevity to healthspan, with both speakers noting that people may be living longer but not necessarily healthier, especially in the last 10 to 15 years of life.
• Chronic disease in children is a major theme, with discussion of rising rates of diabetes, obesity, autoimmune conditions, neurodevelopmental concerns, and autism.
• Dr. Warsh says the most surprising part of his research for Between a Shot and a Hard Place was realizing how little true vaccinated versus unvaccinated data has been published.
• He explains the vaccine schedule has expanded over time and discusses why he thinks the lack of manufacturer accountability reduces incentives to improve safety.
• The episode also covers newer vaccine platforms, including mRNA, and why Dr. Warsh is especially cautious about their use in children.
• Hepatitis B for newborns comes up as a particularly important example of a vaccine whose timing and risk-benefit calculus he thinks should be revisited.
• The discussion ends with a broader call for medical freedom, informed consent, and the ability for parents to make decisions without being forced.

Timestamps

00:00 - Why vaccine conversations are impossible to avoid

02:10 - How integrative pediatrics changed Dr. Warsh's practice

03:31 - Why parents' vaccine questions became unavoidable

05:13 - Writing Between a Shot and a Hard Place

06:50 - Why COVID deepened mistrust in medicine

09:36 - Why school requirements don't feel like a real choice

13:22 - Medicine should educate, not coerce

17:06 - How pharma shapes training and medical thinking

20:34 - Why accountability matters for vaccine safety

23:28 - The rise of chronic disease in children

30:22 - Big Food, convenience, and multi-generational health impact

36:15 - The Henry Ford vaccinated vs. unvaccinated controversy

40:48 - Why “the science is settled” is the wrong phrase

43:43 - How the vaccine schedule expanded after 1986

48:26 - Rethinking timing, prioritization, and cumulative risk

54:14 - RFK, reform, and transparency

55:14 - What surprised Dr. Warsh most in the research

62:03 - Reassessing newborn and early childhood vaccine timing

67:30 - Why Hep B for newborns is controversial

69:58 - Traditional vaccines vs. mRNA

73:17 - Why Dr. Warsh is cautious about mRNA for kids

75:28 - Why pulled vaccines used to be removed faster

77:41 - The accountability gap

79:39 - Why medical freedom matters for the future

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-call

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuide

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
Website:  https://www.perfeqtionimaging.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons sits down with Dr. Daved Rosensweet for a wide-ranging, deeply informed conversation about menopause, hormone replacement therapy, breast cancer risk, and why so many women have been left without clear, trustworthy options.Dr. Rosensweet shares how the Women’s Health Initiative created lasting fear around hormones, why that fear was built on misreported data, and how the conversation around estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone has slowly begun to change. 

Together, they make the case that hormones are not the enemy of women’s health and in many cases, they are central to preserving it. The conversation also turns to safety, testing, individualized dosing, and the role of breast imaging. Dr. Jenn explains why QT imaging is changing the way she thinks about screening, and Dr. Rosensweet reflects on why he has long required imaging before prescribing hormones. The result is an unusually honest, technically rich, and hopeful conversation about how to care for women better at every stage of life.

What You’ll Learn

• Why the Women’s Health Initiative misled both the public and providers
• What the data actually showed about estrogen and breast cancer risk
• Why many women were taken off hormones unnecessarily for decades
• How Dr. Rosensweet thinks about the safety of hormone replacement after breast cancer
• Why estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone all matter for women’s health
• How hormone loss contributes to sleep problems, brain fog, libido loss, bone loss, and muscle loss
• Why the timing of hormone therapy matters, but it may not be “too late”
• How Dr. Rosensweet approaches individual dosing and hormone testing
• Why topical delivery matters when it comes to clotting risk and liver metabolism
• How QT imaging fits into a safer, more modern breast-screening strategy

Chapters

00:00
Introduction and episode overview

09:50
Hormone therapy after breast cancer: what the science says

12:31
The role of estrogen and breast cancer risk

14:23
Hormones and breast cancer risk: what the latest studies show

16:22
The lag in medical progress and the 30-year delay in hormone research

17:44
Why the narrative that estrogen causes cancer persists

20:02
Recent advances and the future of hormone therapy

22:51
The importance of provider education and safe hormone protocols

25:49
Signs you should consider hormone therapy

30:44
What women can do if they missed their window for hormone therapy

33:49
Is it ever too late for hormone therapy?

36:02
Determining the right hormone levels and testing methods

37:24
How Dr. Rosensweet ensures safe hormone replacement practices

44:33
Understanding breast cancer cells and hormone receptor sites

46:03
Hormones as protectors, not causes, of breast cancer

47:08
The impact of environmental toxins on health

48:17
The need for testosterone in women and men

52:02
Addressing the lack of provider training on hormones

54:27
Empowering women to have informed conversations about hormones

55:46
Closing remarks and call to action

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-call

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuide

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
Website:  https://www.perfeqtionimaging.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons returns for part two of her conversation with Ivy Harris, the homeschool mom and researcher behind Done with Diligence, to answer the question Part 1 left open: if not a mammogram, then what? Dr. Jenn makes her most direct case yet that screening healthy, asymptomatic women with mammography is unethical and unsupported by science, and she lays out the alternative she built her practice around. This is the episode where she stops critiquing the old model and hands women a new one.

Ivy asks the question every listener is thinking after Part 1: is there ever a situation where Dr. Jenn recommends a mammogram? Her answer draws the one line that matters most in this whole conversation, the line between screening a woman who feels fine and diagnosing a woman who has a symptom. One of those saves lives. The other, she argues, has been quietly manufacturing cancer for sixty years. This is the episode you'll want to send to every woman who's ever been told she has no choice but to start at 40 and repeat every year.

What You'll Learn

• Why Dr. Jenn recommends no screening mammogram for any asymptomatic woman.
• What the difference between FDA cleared and FDA approved really means, and why mammography would never pass the FDA today
• How QT compares to mammography and why it was built for dense breasts and implants first
• Why screening a 30 year old with a mammogram isn't avoided because it can't be done, but because it would reliably cause cancer
• Why the WISDOM trial showed more screening produces more biopsies and more diagnoses without saving a single additional life
• What women should actually screen for instead, the metabolic dysfunction and inflammatory markers that point to prevention
• The daily, no-cost practices Dr. Jenn says do more for breast health than any scan, from fasting to bone-loading movement to detoxification
• Why a biopsy does not spread cancer, and why stage one breast cancer is 99% survivable
• Why the difference between surviving breast cancer and thriving after it usually comes down to who gets a health plan, not just a treatment plan
  
  

Episode Timeline:
01:29 Do mammograms save lives or save breasts
01:50 Why finding cancer early doesn't change the outcome
02:20 How QT imaging and doubling time work
05:01 The difference between screening and diagnosis
07:14 Thermography, ultrasound, and the tears test
12:32 FDA cleared versus FDA approved, explained
18:06 QT versus mammogram sensitivity, 91% versus 71%
20:47 QT for dense breasts and implants
23:51 QT insurance coverage, cost, and access
26:11 What age to start screening, and why not mammograms
28:20 Responding to Peter Attia and the WISDOM trial
34:21 Diet, fasting, movement, and prevention basics
38:53 What to do after a breast cancer diagnosis
39:44 Whether biopsies spread cancer, and the estrogen myth
43:30 Dr. Jenn's credentials and qualifications

Guest: Ivy Harris
Where to find her: donewithdiligence.com & @donewithdiligence

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-call

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuide

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
Website:  https://www.perfeqtionimaging.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons sits down with Ivy Harris, a homeschool mom of four, researcher, and soon-to-be certified homeopath behind the blog Done with Diligence, for part one of a two-part conversation on the hidden risks of mammograms and breast cancer screening. Ivy is not a doctor. She's a mom who decided she wasn't going to walk into her first mammogram without doing her own homework first, and what she found is the reason this episode exists.

It started with one post, Ivy broke down what she'd learned about mammograms into five parts, shared it, and watched it split her audience in half, with some women thanking her and others telling her she was going to get people killed. Dr. Jenn picks up exactly where Ivy left off and does the math no one does at check-in: 40 million screening mammograms a year, and by the numbers in the study Ivy found, the radiation alone works out to tens of thousands of cancers and over a thousand deaths a year.

This is the episode you'll want to send to every woman who's ever been told a mammogram is simply safe, simply necessary, and not worth questioning.

What You'll Learn

• The naming decision behind "mammogram" that Dr. Jenn says was never an accident
• Ionizing radiation is a classified carcinogen, and why radiologists won't apply that logic to their own test
• The cross-country flight radiation comparison doctors use to reassure you, and why it doesn't hold up
• How breast density and size can mean 10x more radiation for one woman than another in the same mammogram
• Why younger breast tissue takes more damage from radiation as screening age keeps getting pushed lower
• Overdiagnosis: the NIH's own number is as high as 1 in 2 women screened
• Why DCIS, diagnosed in 90,000 women a year, has no physical route to become life-threatening breast cancer
• How standard DCIS treatment can raise heart failure and fracture risk higher than the diagnosis itself
• False positives and the 80% benign biopsy rate hiding behind every mammogram callback
• What a 2026 American College of Physicians paper found on mammograms and breast cancer mortality, at every age
• Why decades of mammography have increased mastectomies by 20%, the opposite of what screening promised
• Lead time bias: how a screening test can look life-saving on paper without changing when anyone actually dies
• The UK surgeon forced to resign for telling women the truth about mammogram screening

Episode Timeline:
00:00 Introducing Ivy Harris and Done with Diligence
02:27 Why Ivy researched mammogram safety before her first screening
03:00 Going past the rumors to the actual breast cancer research
04:13 Her viral mammogram post and the backlash that followed
05:32 Standing firm on breast cancer screening controversy
07:39 Radiation risks: why a mammogram is a breast x-ray
09:12 The studies linking mammogram radiation to breast cancer
11:14 How radiation damages younger breast tissue
13:36 The math: 40 million mammograms and radiation-induced cancer deaths
17:59 Overdiagnosis and unnecessary breast cancer treatment
26:14 The train analogy for mammogram overdiagnosis
28:12 How breast cancer actually progresses versus the screening myth
32:29 The real harm of overdiagnosis and overtreatment
34:54 Why mammograms don't reduce all-cause breast cancer mortality
50:15 Lead time bias and misleading screening survival statistics
52:04 Michael Baum, saving breasts, and a Part 2 preview

Resources Mentioned:
American College of Physicians, Annals of Internal Medicine, April 2026: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M22-3424

Guest: Ivy Harris
Where to find her: Done with Diligence  & @donewithdiligence

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-call

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuide

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
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In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons sits down with Dr. Aimie Apigian, a physician with a master's in biochemistry who left surgical training to study the biology of trauma after her own health collapsed. Together they make the case that unresolved trauma, including the kind you'd never check a box for, is not a side note to breast cancer but part of the terrain it grows in. This is the conversation conventional oncology skips entirely.

Dr. Aimie didn't recognize her own trauma until it nearly destroyed her health. Raised to be her adopted father's emotional stability, she carried a burden she never named as trauma, until a failed adoption after six years left her with chronic fatigue she couldn't get out of bed from one month later. She knew the research linking adversity to disease. She still didn't see it in herself. If you've ever told yourself your childhood "wasn't that bad," this episode will give language to what your body already knows.

What You'll Learn

• Why the women most likely to carry hidden trauma are the ones who'd swear they had a happy childhood
• What the famous ACE study found when it looked at wealthy women, and why it shocked the medical world
• Why trauma isn't a feeling you can think your way out of, but a physical loop your body keeps running
• What a review revealed about childhood adversity and breast cancer risk
• Why the state you were in before your diagnosis matters more than the diagnosis itself
• How to tell if your body is still holding trauma, without digging into your past
• Why feeling safe feels terrifying to a nervous system that survived on control
• How healing can start with just two seconds at a time
• Why no retreat or single psychedelic trip will do what small daily habits can
• Why most people start their trauma work in the wrong place, and pay for it

Guest Dr. Aimie Apigian
Where to find her: biologyoftrauma.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/draimie/

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-call

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuide

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
Website:  https://www.perfeqtionimaging.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons responds to Peter Attia's breast cancer screening episode (#396). Attia asks the right question: why are 42,000 women still dying of breast cancer every year? But his answer, more mammograms and MRI on top, is exactly wrong. Dr. Jenn breaks down, study by study, why that 40-year approach has never moved the death toll.

Forty-two thousand women a year. That number has not moved since mammography went mainstream in the 1980s. Detection rates are up, diagnoses are up, and the death toll has not changed. We have been finding more cancer, calling more women patients, and watching the same number of them die. If you have ever scheduled your annual mammogram believing it was the most protective thing you could do, this episode will reframe everything you thought you knew.

What You'll Learn

• Why the breast cancer death toll has not moved in 40 years, and why more screening is the reason
• Why DCIS is not cancer, why mammography invented it, and what happens to a woman the moment it gets labeled "stage zero"
• Why an aggressive tumor is aggressive from the day it forms, and why finding it earlier on a mammogram does not change what it does next
• Why mammography catches the cancers least likely to kill you, and routinely misses the ones that will
• What happened when researchers followed 89,835 women for 25 years and compared annual mammography to doing nothing, and why you have never heard about it
• What the Cochrane review found after analyzing every randomized mammography trial ever run, and why Peter Attia addressed it in one sentence
• Why the WISDOM trial, the most significant recent evidence in this space and the one study Attia never mentions, is an indictment of everything he argued
• Why there is no standard radiation dose for a mammogram, and why the woman next to you in the waiting room may have received ten times less than you did
• What the FDA has formally documented about gadolinium staying in the brain and bones for years, and why the women being told to get it every six months are the last women who should
• Why insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and toxic burden are among the most powerful drivers of breast cancer risk, and why Attia's episode contained zero mention of any of them

Resources Mentioned

• Peter Attia, Episode 396 on breast cancer screening: peterattiamd.com/breastcancerscreening
• Dr. Robin Berzin, founder of Parsley Health
• Miller AB, et al. Twenty five year follow-up of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study. BMJ. 2014;348:g366.
• Gøtzsche PC, Jørgensen KJ. Screening for breast cancer with mammography. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013;(6):CD001877.
• Zahl PH, et al. Results of the Two-County trial are not compatible with official Swedish breast cancer statistics. Danish Medical Bulletin. 2006;53(4):438–440.
• Nyström L, et al. Long-term effects of mammography screening: updated overview of the Swedish randomised trials. Lancet. 2002;359:909–19.
• Esserman LJ, et al. Risk-Based vs Annual Breast Cancer Screening: The WISDOM Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2026;335(9):763–774.
• FDA gadolinium-based contrast agent safety communications (2015, 2017, 2018), summarized in Fotenos A, FDA Pediatric Advisory Committee, Sept 2018.
• Kanda T, et al. High signal intensity in the dentate nucleus and globus pallidus and cumulative gadolinium dose. Radiology. 2014;270(3):834–841.
• Veenhuizen SGA, et al. Supplemental breast MRI for women with extremely dense breasts: DENSE trial. Radiology. 2021;299(2):278–286.
• Tabar L, et al. Reduction in mortality from breast cancer after mass screening with mammography. Lancet. 1985;325:829–32.

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-call

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuide

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

In this episode of Keeping Abreast Dr. Jenn Simmons sits down with keynote speaker, author, and 2025 Dynamic Woman of the Year Erika Rothenberger for a conversation about what happens when life forces you to stop playing small. Erika had a day in 2022 that changed everything. What she did on the other side of it is what this conversation is about. Dr. Jenn and Erika get into the trauma we avoid, the life we keep deferring, and why the hardest moments tend to be the most clarifying ones.

If you have ever survived something hard and wondered what you are supposed to do with it, this episode will give you your answer.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What Erika survived in 2022 and why she considers it the greatest turning point of her life
• Why playing it safe is the most dangerous thing a woman can do
• Why Dr. Jenn believes a breast cancer diagnosis can be an opportunity and what that actually looks like in practice
• The real reason most women never go after the life they want and why it has nothing to do with time, money, or circumstances
• Why the trauma you have been avoiding is not behind you. It is driving you.
• A simple daily method that takes 36 minutes and rebuilds your entire mindset from the ground up
• The science behind why the people you surround yourself with are either quietly lifting you or quietly costing you
• The gap in Pennsylvania law that leaves women unprotected and the legislation Erika is fighting to change
• Why the most powerful thing a woman can do for her health right now has nothing to do with her body
  
  

Episode Timeline
01:07 Introducing Erika Rothenberger
03:09 Energy, seasons, and the permission to give 60%
06:56 Erika's story and the morning that changed everything
12:41 Playing small vs. playing large
16:36 Fear, inertia, and the life you keep putting off
19:45 Writing the book and going public with her story
27:32 Why healing is a choice you make every day
32:27 How to protect your time and fuel yourself first
35:35 Why no is a complete sentence
38:01 Finding the good in every setback
40:02 Why a breast cancer diagnosis can be its own kind of punch
43:00 Why your circle determines your ceiling
45:22 What Erika took away from watching Mel Robbins
50:57 The Audacious Summit, October 2025
52:45 Money, legacy, and what you are building
59:22 Finding your thing and going after it
1:05:44 Where to find Erika and closing thoughts

Where to Find Find Erika Rothenberger:
Website: erikarothenberger.com
Instagram: @erikalearothenberger
Book: Audacious Expansion

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-call

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuide

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
Website:  https://www.perfeqtionimaging.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons sits down with James Maskell, health economist, founder of the Evolution of Medicine, and the architect of a movement to reverse cognitive decline, to make the case that Alzheimer's is not a death sentence. It is a solvable problem that medicine has been approaching the wrong way for 40 years.

James flew to South Africa when his father collapsed and was expected to die. Every doctor in the room was preparing the family for the end. James walked into his father's house and saw black mold on the wall. Days after moving his father out of that environment, he was opening his eyes. Two weeks later, the doctor declared he had no terminal illness at all.

This is the episode to send to anyone who's been told a declining mind is the only end of the story.

In This Episode, You'll Learn

• Why there is no effective drug for Alzheimer's and why 40 years of pharmaceutical research has been chasing the wrong target
• What the 6 root cause categories driving cognitive decline actually are and why they are the same ones driving breast cancer
• What the first randomized controlled trial on reversing Alzheimer's showed and why 91% of participants got better without a drug
• Why catching even a single point drop on a cognitive test can prevent full decline if you act on it immediately
• How biotoxins like mold can trigger what looks exactly like end stage Alzheimer's and how removing the cause reverses it
• Why loneliness and loss of purpose are not soft factors but measurable root causes of cognitive decline and breast cancer
• What the Blue Zones actually have in common and why it has nothing to do with supplements or technology
• Why community is one of the most powerful clinical interventions we have and how to start building it today

Episode Timeline
00:00 Why Community Is the Most Powerful Clinical Intervention We Have
07:15 40 Years of Alzheimer's Drugs and Nothing to Show for It
12:57 Why Neurologists Are the Last Doctors to Accept This Science
18:23 The Myth That You Were Healthy Right Up Until Your Diagnosis
26:03 Catching Cognitive Decline Before It Becomes Alzheimer's
30:41 The 6 Root Cause Categories Driving Cognitive Decline and Breast Cancer
33:21 The Science Behind Why Your Social Circle Shapes Your Health Outcomes
37:41 How Retirement, Isolation, and Lost Purpose Are Fueling Chronic Disease
41:20 Trying to Change the System Is the Wrong Goal
45:51 Why the Chronic Disease Crisis Will Force the System to Collapse
53:10 How Real Health Change Starts at the Grassroots Level
59:08 Final Thoughts on Taking Your Health Back

Where to Find James Maskell:
Instagram: @mrjamesmaskell
Website: jamesmaskell.com

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-call

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuide

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
Website:  https://www.perfeqtionimaging.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons sits down with Broadway star, bestselling author, and master communicator Renee Marino to make the case that self-advocacy is not a career skill, it is a health act. Renee went from five Broadway shows and a Clint Eastwood film to co-hosting Tony Robbins's global summits, and every door she walked through opened because she asked.

She was the only actress in the entire Jersey Boys Broadway cast not called in to audition for the film because a middleman dropped the ball, and if she had not looked the casting director in the eye and asked for the role she was already playing eight shows a week, she would have watched herself be replaced on screen while Clint Eastwood waited for her to walk through a door she never knew was open.

This is the episode for any woman who has ever left an interaction in work, the doctors office, or in their personal life feeling dismissed and said nothing.

In This Episode, You'll Learn

• Why losing your voice shifts your body chemistry toward defeat and stress, and why Dr. Jenn calls speaking up a health tool, not just a mindset 
• Why no agent, manager, or doctor will ever advocate for you as powerfully as you can advocate for yourself in the room
• What keyboard confidence is costing women in their health relationships and why a text is almost always the wrong tool for an important conversation
• The two questions to ask before hitting send on any message, post, or reply that actually changes how you communicate
• What breast cancer screening looks like when the technology is built to actually show you what is there, not flatten and irradiate you
  
  

Episode Timeline:
00:00 Introduction to Renee Marino
04:10 The power of asking for what you want
06:50 Navigating Rejection
09:53 The Importance of Hard Work and Integrity
12:41 The Role of Communication in Success
15:15 The Journey to Becoming Mary Delgado
18:14 The Impact of Speaking Up
25:47 Speaking up as self-advocacy
31:39 Lessons from the kitchen table
37:37 Why she wrote Becoming a Master Communicator
40:05 The three communication homes
44:44 Balancing technology with real connection
47:47 Women, voice, and the difficult label
1:06:35 Experiencing breast screening that treats you like a person
1:12:08 Glam and Grit: an event built for real connection
1:14:45 Final thoughts and takeaways

Where to Find Renee Marino:
Instagram: @iamreneemarino
Book: Becoming a Master Communicator

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working with Dr. Jenn visit: https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/clarity-call

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SmartWomansBreastCancerGuide

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
Website:  https://www.perfeqtionimaging.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons